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The Truth

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Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

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Filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu once predicted that his Palme d’Or-winning “Shoplifters” would come to represent a major turning point in his career — the end of one phase, and the beginning of another. As it turns out, “The Truth” is inevitably a bit more complicated.

The first movie the Japanese writer-director has made since winning the film world’s most prestigious award is also the first that he’s ever shot in another tongue or country, and that fact alone is enough to make Kore-eda’s latest feel like an outlier in any number of obvious ways; a foreign organ transplanted into an otherwise cohesive body of work. On the other hand, this wise and diaphanous little drama finds Kore-eda once again exploring his…

Much smaller scale on it’s surface compared to what I’m used to with Kore-eda but definitely packs a punch underneath. Maybe too underneath for my taste though. Could be that I’m just burnt out and slightly sleep deprived at this point but it lost my interest in a few scenes. Still tho, everything to love about his filmmaking is very present here.

It's such a pleasure for me to see French films and Hirokazu Koreeda is a master director.

The story follows Fabienne Dangeville (Catherine Deneuve), an actress who has had an amazing career. With the release of her book, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) visits her. Imagine Koreeda using Binoche as a character that cannot act. LOL!!!

Ethan Hawke, plays Hank, Lumir's husband: a second rate American TV actor. His animated interactions with his daughter and other children are the best parts.

Ludivine Sagnier plays an actress playing the role of "Amy" at 38 years old. Catherine Deneuve also plays "Amy" at 73 years old. There are two other actresses that play…

A universe in which a chain-smoking Catherine Deneuve constantly bickers with Juliette Binoche, carelessly undermines the acting talents of Ethan Hawke and has the power to turn old men into turtles, is a universe I want to live in.